Coonamessett Farm Foundation: Electronic catch reporting for the US - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Coonamessett Farm Foundation: Electronic catch reporting for the US scallop fleet - RSA: Real-Time Bycatch Reporting Pilot Project - PSFMC: FLDRS for the Mid-Atlantic scallop fleet Daniel Ward, Ph.D. Coonamessett Farm Foundation, Inc. 277 Hatchville Rd. East Falmouth, MA 02536 Phone: 603-505-0865 Email: dward@cfarm.org

Electronic catch reporting  Why electronic catch reporting? ◦ -eVTR ◦ Fishery dependant data  Lack of survey data  Observer coverage  AMs  Bycatch avoidance  Project progress to date: ◦ 2013: 6 vessels reporting ◦ 2014: 10 vessels reporting ◦ Social science

Real-Time Bycatch Reporting Pilot Project  Preliminary stage ◦ Conceptual planning  What data should be collected?  What is feasible to have fishermen collect? ◦ Software development  How to transmit the data?  Costs?  Secondary stage ◦ T est data  On land  On the F/V Celtic (2011) ◦ Data transmission  Boatracs (2011)  Succorfish (2012)

Real-Time Bycatch Reporting Pilot Project  Setup: ◦ GPS Logger  Automatic GPS ◦ BTVessel  (Btvessel vs. WBUI) ◦ Olrac DDL  Dynamic Data Logbook  Upgrades in 2012 over initial version

Real-Time Bycatch Reporting Pilot Project  Start a trip ◦ Minimal manual data input ◦ Autofill capabilities  Entering catch data ◦ Redesigned grid system ◦ Flexible to add or remove features

Real-Time Bycatch Reporting Pilot Project Reporting:  To shore: ◦ Daily catch reports ◦ Trip reports  To the vessel: ◦ Bycatch reports

Real-Time Bycatch Reporting Pilot Project

CFF Electronic Monitoring Program vs. NOAA FLDRS Program  CFF EM Program  NOAA FLDRS Program ◦ Certified eVTR program ◦ Not certified for eVTR ◦ No mapper function ◦ Visualize real-time on mapper ◦ No ability to send information ◦ Send back real-time bycatch back to the vessel hotspot maps ◦ Shore-based online program to ◦ Shore-based program to edit visualize data, accessible to catch data available to owners/captains owners/captains ◦ Data not transmitted to NOAA, ◦ Data transmitted to NOAA stays within the industry

PSFMC: FLDRS for the Mid-Atlantic scallop fleet  Mid-Atlantic vessels only for the first round  Incentive-based payments  GPS and sounder inputs

PSFMC: FLDRS for the Mid-Atlantic scallop fleet  Catch and tow data relates to NEFSC and Observer program codes  Environmental data collection  Sent with USB, and then emailed

Thank you  Eastern Fisheries: Ronnie Enoksen and Peter Anthony  Joe Gilbert and Ed Lee (F/V Regulus and F/V Furious)  Charlie Quinn and Paul Desmarais (F/V Celtic)  Heidi Henninger  Fatima Felaar  Dominic Bindley, Alan Yu